Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 80
Company != Agency
Comment Re:The Curve on Academic Courses (Score 2) 425
As someone who was briefly an art major, drawing is largely a matter of practice and having the proper foundation (which is gained by practice). Classes increase the rate that practice helps. If you practice, art education teachers have already figured out how to help you improve. What you see in high school art classes is the division between people who care and people who don't. People who don't care don't practice and consequently don't have the foundation to practice further.
Because there's no future in art, in college the only people who take art classes are the ones who care and who have the proper foundation, so (allowing for the typical small class size) there is a much more normal distribution in skill.
Open Source Hardware Approaching Critical Mass 64
angry tapir writes: The Open Compute Project, which wants to open up hardware the same way Linux opened up software, is starting to tackle its forklift problem. You can't download boxes or racks, so open-source hardware needs a supply chain, said OCP President and Chairman Frank Frankovsky, kicking off the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose. The companies looking to adopt this kind of gear include some blue-chip names: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Capital One are members. The idea is that if a lot of vendors build hardware to OCP specifications, IT departments will have more suppliers to choose from offering gear they can easily bring into their data centers. Standard hardware can also provide more platforms for innovative software, Frankovsky said. Now HP and other vendors are starting to deliver OCP systems in a way the average IT department understands. At the same time, the organization is taking steps to make sure new projects are commercially viable rather than just exercises in technology.
Comment I am using Windows 8 (Score 5, Informative) 516
And I can't do it without Classic Shell.
Classic Shell, making Windows 8 Bearable.
Is Google CEO's "Tiny Bubble Car" Yahoo CEO's "Little Bubble Car"? 190
theodp (442580) writes "Back in 2011, then-Google VP and now-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer brainstormed with BMW to sketch out an idea she had for self-driving 'little bubbles' that could ease office commutes. Here's Mayer's pitch from a BMW film short: 'All I really need is a little bubble that drives itself and when it runs into something, it doesn't hurt that much...and...you know, like it doesn't actually take up that much fuel because it's so lightweight and it's good for the environment for that reason.' So, with Google's newly-built, steering wheel-less self-driving car being described as a 'tiny bubble-car', one wonders if Google CEO Larry Page's "Tiny Bubble Car" has its roots in Mayer's 'Little Bubble Car,' especially considering the striking similarity of Mayer's concept car sketch and Google's built vehicle." Seems to me there's been plenty of concept art (as well as actual tiny bubble-like cars, even if they generallly have had steering wheels) for car designers to draw on.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot 343
lpress (707742) writes "At a recent conference, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts rationalized charging Netflix to deliver content by comparing Comcast to the Post Office, saying that Netflix pays to mail DVDs to its customers but now expects to be able to deliver the same content over the internet for free. He forgot to mention that the Post Office does not charge recipients for those DVDs. The underlying issue in this debate is who will invest in the Internet infrastructure that we badly need? Comcast has a disincentive to invest because, if things bog down, people will blame content providers like Netflix and the ISP will be able to charge the content provider for adequate service. If ISPs have insufficient incentive to invest in infrastructure, who will? Google? Telephone companies? Government (at all levels)? Premises owners?"
Comment sudoedit? visudo! (Score 4, Interesting) 83
Using sudoedit to edit the suders file is interesting, but wrong. Please don't do that. Use visudo instead, as it does check for valid syntax.
Also, what has "The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success" to do with sudo?
Comment Re:Let me translate that into English: (Score 3, Informative) 97
This comment was made gold by having the essential "cloud-to-butt" chrome extension
Comment I'm currently at a camp site (Score 1) 173
I'm posting this from the camp site of OHM 2013, and I cannot confirm the results of this study...
Comment Re:Really?!? (Score 1) 1448
Forgetting that I was on Slashdot and not on Google+, I instinctively reached to click the +1 button. You've hit the nail on the head, my friend.
Comment Obligitory Futurama Quotation (Score 1) 205
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Comment Support contract (Score 1) 289
How much is the IBM support contract for this?
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 281
Hi. You must be new here.
Comment Re:Blamestorming (Score 1) 248
Comment Re:Religion (Score 3, Insightful) 506
I have no mod points, and you're already at +5, but I just wanted to add my +1, Insightful to your comment.
Religion has caused, and is causing, more hate and violence than any political ideology that I can think of in recent times. The tax-free status of religions needs to be revoked immediately.
As a former Christian, I've abandoned the "faith" and I'm currently trying to stop my wife from giving away my hard earned salary to an organisation that cannot prove anything it stands for.
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